Definitely better than a standard corporation, but since the workers aren’t the owners, they can still be exploited at the end of the day. With worker coops, the workers democratically run the business that they spend most of their waking hours working at. With consumer coops, the consumers decide how the business is run (in an ideal scenario), but the workers don’t get a say, or at least don’t get more of a say than consumers, assuming the workers are also consumers.
I wouldn’t consider worker coops to be capitalist, since by its very nature, it’s “workers owning the means of production.”
Well, that’s Mondragon OK then. And the other sorts of co-op? I think the consumer co-ops may be the biggest.
Definitely better than a standard corporation, but since the workers aren’t the owners, they can still be exploited at the end of the day. With worker coops, the workers democratically run the business that they spend most of their waking hours working at. With consumer coops, the consumers decide how the business is run (in an ideal scenario), but the workers don’t get a say, or at least don’t get more of a say than consumers, assuming the workers are also consumers.
hmmm… but at least they’re being exploited for the benefit of the commonwealth not the capital! (whistles past the graveyard)